Sentences with phrase «high emissions futures»

Median projections of global mean sea level over the course of this century for low, median, and high emissions futures.

Maps show median projections for 2100 under the high emissions future.

How this is done will either lock us in to a high emission future or steer us towards truly sustainable low - emissions development.

Maps show median projections for 2100 under the high emissions future.

Not exact matches

The findings «don't necessarily suggest future emissions will generally be higher or lower than current projections, but they suggest that this will depend more sensitively on how exactly economies grow (or shrink),» he said.

The research organization Oil Change International and other research organizations have concluded that, because of this high GHG emission feature, in order to meet our Paris Accord commitment (and save a habitable planet for future generations) 80 % of the Tar Sands must «stay in the ground».

Overly optimistic projections of future oil supply, which are much higher than the latest NEB projections and don't consider the Alberta government's cap on oil sands emissions imposed by its Climate Leadership Plan.

The world could cut greenhouse emissions by fracking for gas and replacing coal - fired power stations, but using gas to produce power could then lock us into a high - carbon future.

Authors project with high confidence that continued growth in emissions from global passenger and freight activity could «outweigh future mitigation measures,» says a preliminary version of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) study obtained by ClimateWire.

The study applied «medium to high» future emissions estimates of heat - trapping gases, as assumed by the California state government, to models designed to assess what effect climate change would have on national parks like Yosemite, Death Valley, Redwood, Joshua Tree and Sequoia.

When this model was then applied to the future, they found that in a world of continuing high greenhouse gas emissions, the threshold for widespread drought - induced vascular damage would be crossed and initiate widespread tree deaths on average across climate model projections in the 2050s.

The world could cut greenhouse emissions by fracking for gas and replacing coal - fired power stations, but use of gas could then lock us into a high - carbon future.

In its statement, Peabody reiterated its belief that advanced clean coal technology «is the bridge to a low - emissions future for a world experiencing rising electricity demand to satisfy urbanization and offer a higher quality of life.»

Across most of the continental United States, those days will be about 10ºF to 15ºF hotter in the future under the higher emissions scenario.

With the global economy in recession, fuel prices still high and ever - tighter emissions laws ahead, you might imagine that they too would be heading at full tilt towards an economical, low - carbon future.

Beyond equilibrium climate sensitivity -LSB-...] Newer metrics relating global warming directly to the total emitted CO2 show that in order to keep warming to within 2 °C, future CO2 emissions have to remain strongly limited, irrespective of climate sensitivity being at the high or low end.»

Such research is needed for understanding future changes in cyclones and avoided impacts if we follow the Paris Agreement on climate change, rather than current, high greenhouse gas emission pathways.»

Future global temperature change should depend mainly on atmospheric CO2, at least if fossil fuel emissions remain high.

CO2 accounts for more than 80 % of the added GHG forcing in the past 15 years [64], [167] and, if fossil fuel emissions continue at a high level, CO2 will be the dominant driver of future global temperature change.

For Coral Springs, for example, which appears to be comfortably inland, the high - tide line will encompass about a quarter of the city's population some time in the distant future, if emissions continue at current levels through the year 2040.

In the future, losing a mere 0.2 % per year of the tundra (in the form of CO2) would add two billion tons a year to our carbon emissions, yet that rate would still leave us with over 80 % of the tundra by 2100, so it is not an especially fast loss rate compared to what we may see at 550 ppm or higher.

Part of Lexus» future strategy is to take advantage of the move against diesel - powered cars in city centers because of their higher NOx emissions compared to hybrid - and gas - powered cars.

Our European Bureau chief Georg Kacher previously reported on the future of the McLaren lineup, saying that the 650S replacement would not perform much higher than the current 650S, with simple things like better in - gear acceleration, semi-active suspension, and a smaller emissions footprint.

In a full - court press, manufacturers are powering a low - emissions, high - mileage, particulate - free and hybrid - propelled future.

The six - liter TDI uses significantly less fuel than any competing gasoline engine in the high - performance SUV sector; thanks to efficient combustion and the complex exhaust emission control system, the Audi Q7 V12 TDI quattro already complies with future emissions standards.

Audi has not offered a V8 with the Mk2 R8 because of what Ingolstadt officials describe as a combination of the high costs of updating it to meet future emissions standards and concerns in markets such as China, where road tax is linked to engine capacity.

In the future, to justify high - performance models the Czech car - maker will have to rely on new tech like plug - in hybrids, which deliver power and torque without the same emissions penalty.

In Europe, high emissions and an appetite for fuel put the future of the legendary Boxer engine in...

California should be able to make the decision to limit emissions, because high levels of emissions, contributing to the already high levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, have the potential to negatively affect California in the near future.

These model experiments include the historical period up to 2005, and a future period under a high emissions scenario.

That's this century and not the post summer of 2016 nor 2017 — which is probably why Killian then said in @ 388 That study in no way says there should be a big sign of emissions now, only that future emissions should be higher than other studies have found because they were over too short a time frame.

Given those two factors and ignoring future emissions that will drive the temperature even higher, we are already over +2 C warming once we stop emitting short - lived coal smoke and other pollutants into the air and we give the Earth time to reach temperature equilibrium.

This has implications for future scenario's, as a lower sensitivity for CO2 (and a higher for solar) means that there will be less warming for the same CO2 emissions (assuming no large excursions of solar).

«We are calling on policy - makers to respond to the prospect of triggering future climate tipping points by applying the brakes now and putting a high price on carbon emissions before it is too late,» says one of the authors, Tim Lenton, professor of climate change and earth system science at the University of Exeter.

Given the climate models built - in high sensitivity to CO2 emissions, it is virtually impossible to limit future (computer) warming to just 0.5 degrees.

The Royal Society report includes references to Clark et al, 2016 in Nature Climate Change, suggesting the final sea level rise on millennia timescale caused by anthropogenic climate change (partly depending on future emissions) lies in a range between 29 to 55 metres and to DeConto & Pollard, 2016 in Nature, a study suggesting hydro - fracturing and ice cliff collapse around Antarctic ice sheets increases high end projection for sea level rise by 2100 to ± 2 metres.

The Sierra Club said the pledge made in Beijing «keeps the United States on track to cut its carbon pollution by 80 percent by 2050... setting a high bar for future administrations,» and the Obama administration said it would submit the 2025 target to the U.N. process seeking a deal on post-2020 emissions.

Hindustan Times: India may have got what it wants from Doha climate talks but piggy - bagging China may not be of help in future with China's emissions witnessing much higher growth than that of India.

For the study, the researchers used a set of 10 global climate models to simulate future changes in wind power under a high future emissions scenario (known as RCP8.5) and a moderate emissions scenario (known as RCP4.5).

The future concentrations of LLGHGs and the anthropogenic emissions of sulphur dioxide (SO2), a chemical precursor of sulphate aerosol, are obtained from several scenarios considered representative of low, medium and high emission trajectories.

That may mean that some of the highest estimates of future temperature rises, of more than 6C within several decades, are less likely, but it does not let the world off the hook — warming of more than 2C is still highly likely on current high emissions trends, and that would cause severe consequences around the world.

State and total populations on land and major cities in which the majority of the population occupies land committed to fall below future high tide lines given emissions through 2100 under RCP 2.6 (blue city markers on both maps) or 8.5 (red city markers) and assuming the baseline Antarctic case (see text).

They compared historical weather records, an 1,800 - year - long simulation of the climate pre-Industrial-Revolution, and 40 simulations of climate change from 1920 to 2100 (assuming high future greenhouse gas emissions).

Coastal state and US total 2010 census populations living on land falling below future committed high tide lines under different emissions scenarios through 2050, making no assumptions about the inevitability of WAIS collapse (baseline case)

Across most of the continental United States, those days will be about 10ºF to 15ºF hotter in the future under the higher emissions scenario.

This model is integrated for the period 1961 — 1990 (baseline) and the future time period 2071 — 2100 (High emission scenario, A2).

Cities exceeding 100,000 residents where 50 or 100 % of the 2010 population - weighted area will fall below the future committed high tide line, assuming inevitable collapse of the WAIS under any emissions scenario (triggered case)

For each year, the model looks at the future incomes and environmental losses for the business - as - usual case and compares it with one with higher CO2 emissions.

To project future emissions from human activities, we used the SRES higher (A1FI) and lower (B1) emissions scenarios that capture to some extent the uncertainty in future climate due to human decisions [22], with CO2 emissions ranging from slightly less than present - day levels up to four times present - day levels by 2100.

A range of future SLR is estimated from a set of climate simulations governed by lower (B1), middle — upper (A2), and higher (A1fi) GHG emission scenarios.